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English School Data Available to Private Firms

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday April 29 2014, @01:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the Privatise-U dept.

lhsi writes:

Wired reports on the opening to third parties of England's national-pupil-database:

Data relating to every school pupil in England is now available for use by private companies thanks to a change in legislation implemented last year. The move is part of a wider government initiative to "marketise" data, which includes initiatives such as the much-criticised Care.data and the selling off of taxpayer data by HMRC.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday April 29 2014, @02:16PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 29 2014, @02:16PM (#37662)

    A prerequisite would be the party leaders permitting the discussion to happen.

    If its not permitted to be a campaign issue, it won't be a campaign issue, and there will be no voter input.

    This is actually fairly cheap to purchase.

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